Increasing attention in the oncology community has turned to the problem of financial toxicity, a term coined to reflect the significant negative impact that high medical costs combined with income interruption during treatment may cause. Numerous studies have described how widespread the problem...
A high proportion of patients with breast cancer in the Philippines present at an advanced stage and have a rapid, unfavorable outcome. Providing breast cancer education and early detection to this population is important to help reduce this health disparity. This article describes the impact of a...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the Indigenous inhabitants of Australia who face many inequities regarding cancer care and outcomes. They are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than non-Indigenous Australians and have not experienced the improvement in survival that non-...
News reports are full of little else these days than our efforts to combat terrorism at home and abroad. We are consumed and focused, and rightly so. I do not see this changing in the foreseeable future, which makes it even more important to remind ourselves of the campaigns we were waging before...
The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS), a professional association representing more than 29,000 registered nurses and other healthcare professionals specializing in cancer care, believes that quality cancer care is a right of all individuals.
